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War and conflict

Lesson code: HLPX-SXMB-9QNV-H

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1 Civil war
Match the words on the left to their opposites on the right and complete the mini dialogues below.
1. attack

a. civilian

2. advance

b. dead

3. alive

c. defend

4. soldier

d. loyalist

5. capture

e. release

6. rebel

f. retreat

Government: The town is safe. There are civilians everywhere.

Rebel:

That's not true. There are mostly soldiers .

Government: The rebels are losing the war.

Rebel:

That is a lie. The

are losing.

Government: The rebel leader is dead.

Rebel:

That is not true. He is still

Government: Our soldiers are advancing into areas controlled by the rebels.
Rebel:

That's not correct. The government soldiers

from their positions.

Government: The rebels are going to release 100 prisoners.

Rebel:

That's another lie. We intend to

more loyalists.

Government: The rebels are trying to defend their base, but our soldiers are going to enter very soon.
the areas controlled by the government.

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2 War facts
Read the sentences below. Without using a dictionary, match the underlined words to the definitions
below. Think about the context of the words.
1. In 1939, Nazi Germany decided to invade Poland.
2. Britain and France were allies in Word War II.
3. Approximately 300,000 Iraqi soldiers were wounded during the first Gulf War in 1991.
4. US president Kennedy sent troops to Vietnam in 1962.
5. North and South Korea agreed to a truce in 1953.
6. The conflict between Greece and Persia lasted about 50 years.
7. In 1914, an international crisis resulted in the outbreak of World War I.
8. The total number of casualties in Word War I was over 37 million.
9. In Roman times, the sword was considered to be an effective weapon.
a. a strong disagreement or war
b. an agreement to stop fighting for a certain period of time
c. countries who are friends
d. enter a country by force
e. groups or individual soldiers
f. injured while fighting
g. people who are injured or killed during a war
h. something that is designed to cause harm or damage
i.

the start of a war

Do you think there are more conflicts than in the past? How have wars changed?

3 Terrorism

a bomb

2. release

a plane

3. negotiate

a prisoner exchange

4. agree to

hostages

5. plant

propaganda

6. spread

the terrorists' demands

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Terrorism is violent action for political reasons. Match the verbs on the left to the nouns and phrases
on the right to form collocations.

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Now complete the sentences below with the phrases:

and fly it to another country.

1. The terrorists are planning to

2. After 12 hours of negotiations, the terrorists finally decided to

women. But they kept a few men in order to continue the negotiations.
3. The government and the terrorists managed to
released 5 terrorists, and the terrorists released 10 hostages.

, mainly
. The government
and

4. The government did not want to take any risks, so they decided to
removed their troops from the area.
under the politician's car, but the police

5. The man was planning to

caught him just in time.
6. Terrorist groups

on the Internet in order to recruit new members.

4 Talking point
Discuss any of the questions below:
1. Why do terrorists take hostages?

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2. Should governments agree to terrorists' demands?

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1- Civil war

1. c

2. f

3. b

4. a

5. e

6. d

Students can work alone and check in pairs. Go through the answers with the class. Have the students read in
pairs or have two students read for the class.

2. loyalists

3. alive

4. are retreating 5. capture

6. attack

2- War facts
Students can work alone and check in pairs. Go through the answers with the class.

1. d

2. c

3. f

4. e

5. b

6. a

7. i

8. g

9. h

3- Terrorism

hijack - a plane
release - hostages
negotiate - a prisoner exchange
agree to - the terrorists' demands
plant - a bomb
spread - propaganda

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

hijack a plane
release hostages
negotiate a prisoner exchange
agree to terrorists' demands
plant a bomb
spread propaganda

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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

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